I Loved it as a child but also quite liked Lynch's film when it came out. . . on rewatching though, I found it far more dull than I remembered.
I was disinterested in the new film. I saw trailers and thought it looked as dull as dishwater.
I shed a tear or two! 
. It's quirky and endearing... But also philosophical and interesting.p.s. directed by Chernobyl director: Johan Renck.
I watched it last night and largely agree with this - I typically don't go for the "lone person in space" type sci-fi, but this was a bit different.We watched Spaceman yesterday. It’s a drama set in space revolving around relationships but also with sci-fi/ fantasy themes.
I wouldn’t outright recommend it, but neither would I rubbish it. I loved the concept of it, and ultimately I'm felt it could have been a lot better, but we enjoyed it nonetheless because it’s original and mad as fuck
Also, I have often expressed my opinion in this forum that Adam Sandler is a massively overrated comedy actor and most of the films he’s had a creative hand in have been crap and weird. But he has been an excellent actor in the the few dramatic roles I’ve seen him in, and he’s again very good in this.
Overall I would say watch it, but be prepared for a very weird ride, and don’t blame me if you think it’s utter shit.
He is crazy overatted for his one note comedy stylings. Quite weird when he is obviously capable of more as a serious actor.
I started watching it last night just to have on the background while I shifted around some files on my computer, but quite quickly decided that I wanted to engage with it properly so turned it off to save for later. I am looking forward to it.
Oh he's absolutely great in it, if he blows a few expectations out of the water then that's well deserved for this performance.
I am guessing you stopped watching before something highly peculiar happens? That changes the entire dynamic of the film…
One thing that did irk me from the start though was the instant faster than light communication with earth. Firstly this is either impossible or time paradoxes would be possible (seeing the future, altering the past). Secondly, without that delay, the loneliness / isolation aspect is less of an issue. He can connect with the whole world in real time. That's really not so bad. . . . but I still have to see the whole movie so let's see.
It's hard to say at this point. I got up to the spider getting his name. Don't tell me any more.
They handwave that as due to new light-speed communication technology (typically IRL a signal would take around 30 minutes to reach Earth from where he was supposed to be I think) - yeah dubious but also he's got out past Jupiter in the space of 6 months.
I won’t. As I ssid earlier it’s a highly flawed film, but not without its merits.
See Ursula Le Guin's 'ansible' for such device. I have just read The Dispossessed so it was fresh in my mind!
Saturday Night Live. The show that launched pretty much all the launched all the comedy movie big hitters. A large amount of film premises themselves started out as SNL sketches.
I understand that, and even with the 'oh hey handwave' it ruins the isolation of the character a bit.
43 minutes at light speed, which I think would have been enough to aid the feeling of isolation. . . I didn't get far in, but it didn't seem desperately important to the script or flow of the film to make it instantaneous.
I'm not going to spoil anything for you, but I just want to say it isn't a technology issue that feeds into his feelings of isolation, just watch the film
If my sci-fi isn't frivolous fluff then I don't want it to break fundamental rules. I don't give two shits about guardians of the galaxy or star wars / trek doing it.It's science fiction, not science fact
It's not about it being feasible. . . if faster than light communication is possible the implications would be so insane that nothing else in any movie that involves such a thing would matter. You could literally see into the future and then tell the present to do something different so that the future that you witnessed didn't happen, which can't happen because you could not have then sent the message to alter the future.
OMG.
I think you are over reacting.
I think it was very important for three reasons. Isolation, atmosphere and realism. It would have also added another interesting dimension to the disconnect between earth and the lone cosmonaut in space. I think it would have improved the film overall.
It kind of was though. . .
There was no point in the plot where instant communication aided anything about the themes you mention. . . . in fact I think it ruined the feeling of isolation. They actually had to invent a reason for the communications to fail for a while to give them space alone to talk. A reason they could have just had with a hours delay between information relay.
Yes.
No. That was separate and never explained outright as a 'communications issue'. He was still in contact with earth when they were telling him they didn't know why his wife could not respond. The communications later failed (something to do with the particles) and he had to fix / work around them during intense spider conversation periods.
There was a whole scene where base command were discussing whether to allow the message to be transmitted as his wife saying she was leaving him could be hugely demoralising and jeopardise the mission (no shit!), which resulted in the command that it must not go out to him. His wife then was uncontactable by her own volition.
Also, I just remembered - not applicable in this case as he's only near Saturn iirc - but it's not the space traveller who'd see into the future. If you travel far away to another galaxies, when you come back it's the people on Earth who are older - not you. Still irrelevant in this scenario, as these are messages - but interesting nonetheless. As I think your 'seeing into the future' line up there is an impossibility.
